ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

Female Film Critics 24/375

time travel

Reviews 

HERE – Review by T. J. Callahan

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It’s about time Tom Hanks and Robin Wright got back together with their Forrest Gump director Robert Zemekis for a film about time. They all reunited for the drama/fantasy, Here, and it feels…like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. Zemekis, known for his technologically creative film, uses AI to take us from the dawn of time to the 21st century in this generational story of families told from a single vantage point. The director successfully de-ages and ages not only Hanks and Wright, but also Kelly Reilly and Paul Bettany along with several other “tribes” in a historical look at how one single location affects those who inhabit it.

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Festivals Reviews 

APORIA (Fantasia Fest 2023) – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

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Aporia functions most compellingly as a kind of ethical family melodrama with a scifi twist, focusing the bulk of its attention on precisely how lives are impacted as a result of the tinkering with time that lies at the heart of its scifi premise. Aporia is a family melodrama with a scifi edge rather than vice versa, but if you are open to the bringing of these two generic strands together it is a satisfying watch.

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THE GREENHOUSE – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (Nightstream Fest)

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Sometimes science fiction runs at you straight out of the gate, grabbing you by the throat with all the bells and whistles of its familiar iconography: spaceships! Nuclear monsters! Ray guns! And sometimes, those elements are so low-key that it is almost easy to miss that a film falls under the science fiction umbrella at all. It is in this second category that we find the melancholy reflection of grief, love, loss and letting go, The Greenhouse. A beautiful meditation on life, love, family and the fear of opening ourselves up to unknown futures, The Greenhouse is a confident, quiet treasure.

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